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Miro mixed-use complex in downtown San Jose that would feature two residential towers, each 28 stories, and 16,000 square feet of restaurant and retail spaces, visualization. A big development that will bring downtown San Jose two striking residential towers containing more than 600 dwellings, along with spaces for a restaurant, coffee shop and retailers, is slated to push ahead with construction this month.

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Miro mixed-use complex in downtown San Jose that would feature two residential towers, each 28 stories, and 16,000 square feet of restaurant and retail spaces, visualization. A big development that will bring downtown San Jose two striking residential towers containing more than 600 dwellings, along with spaces for a restaurant, coffee shop and retailers, is slated to push ahead with construction this month.

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Miro mixed-use complex in downtown San Jose that would feature two residential towers, each 28 stories, and 16,000 square feet of restaurant and retail spaces, visualization. A big development that will bring downtown San Jose two striking residential towers containing more than 600 dwellings, along with spaces for a restaurant, coffee shop and retailers, is slated to push ahead with construction this month.

Steinberg Hart

Miro mixed-use complex in downtown San Jose that would feature two residential towers, each 28 stories, and 16,000 square feet of restaurant and retail spaces, visualization. A big development that will bring downtown San Jose two striking residential towers containing more than 600 dwellings, along with spaces for a restaurant, coffee shop and retailers, is slated to push ahead with construction this month.

Steinberg Hart

Miro mixed-use complex in downtown San Jose that would feature two residential towers, each 28 stories, and 16,000 square feet of restaurant and retail spaces, visualization. A big development that will bring downtown San Jose two striking residential towers containing more than 600 dwellings, along with spaces for a restaurant, coffee shop and retailers, is slated to push ahead with construction this month.

SAN JOSE — A big development that will bring downtown San Jose two striking residential towers containing more than 600 dwellings, along with spaces for a restaurant, coffee shop and retailers, is slated to push ahead with construction this month, according to a realty executive.

Miro is a housing high-rise that would dramatically reshape San Jose’s skyline and become its tallest towers.

The project has gotten through a three month delay after workers hit an aquifer and water poured into the construction site, creating a large pond that had to be controlled and pumped out.

Now that project developer Bayview Development Group has vanquished the water woes, contractors are expected to begin pouring the surface concrete slab within the next few weeks, a necessary prelude to construction of the vertical components.

The development would include two towers that each will rise 28 stories and will also offer 18,000 square feet of commercial space, including enough room for a sit-down restaurant, a coffee shop and other retailers.

The project fronts on East Santa Clara Street as well as the corners of North Fourth and North Fifth streets. It’s right across the street from San Jose City Hall.

“We are interested in a full-service restaurant on the corner of Fourth Street and a coffee shop on the corner of Fifth Street,” said Ted McMahon, chief investment officer with San Jose-based Bayview Development. “We’re also looking at one or two other retailers.”

The project is poised to capture plenty of interest, partly due to mega expansions by two tech behemoths.

San Jose-based Adobe, which now occupies a three-skyscraper headquarters campus near Park Avenue and South Almaden Boulevard, is actively planning construction of a fourth tower next to the existing complex.

Near the Diridon train station downtown, Google has proposed development of a transit-oriented community of office buildings, homes, shops, restaurants and parks where 25,000 could work, including 15,000 to 20,000 of the search giant’s employees.

“A project like Miro expands the boundaries of downtown San Jose,” said Nick Goddard, a senior vice president with Colliers International, a commercial realty firm.

In decades past, the primary activity in downtown San Jose was concentrated in a relatively narrow strip between State Route 87 and Market Street.

Lately, San Pedro Square has become a hotbed of activity for restaurants and nightlife, while the SoFA, or South First Area has evolved into a theater, entertainment and arts district. Developers have launched major renovations and projects along Santa Clara Street near First, Second and Third streets aimed at creating more activity in the area. Hotels such as the Fairmont also have helped to intensify activity.

The Google and Adobe projects would dramatically widen the scope of the western edges of downtown San Jose, while other efforts, including Miro, would stretch active sections of downtown to the east.

“Miro and the other projects allow all sorts of infill opportunities between Highway 87 and City Hall,” Goddard said.

One of the Miro towers will contain 326 dwelling units and the other tower will contain 304 residences.

“We see both Google and Adobe as positives,” McMahon said. “But we tend to look at the broader economy. For every four to six new jobs being added in Silicon Valley, one housing unit is being built.”